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    It is time for the nation’s beleaguered remainers to give sincere and heartfelt thanks to Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and the other Tory hardliners trying to scupper prime minister Theresa May’s deal with the EU. These zealots, the praetorian guard of Leave, now represent the greatest single threat to the Brexit they have worked so ferociously to secure. Campaigners for a second referendum should offer up a nightly prayer for the continued health of these diehards. A friend ought to take them aside and explain: You’ve won, you dummies. If your heads were not so deeply in the weeds you would see that your oppositionalism is risking the huge gains you have won. The enemies of the people, the saboteurs all the intemperate epithets slung at those deemed to be jeopard...

    Three people were struck by the vehicle outside the Al-Majlis Al-Hussaini Islamic centre in Cricklewood, north west London, as it sped away following a row, Scotland Yard said. Two men in their 20s suffered minor injuries, and a man in his 50s is in hospital with a serious leg injury, police said. A statement from The Hussaini Organisation, which runs the centre, described the incident as a suspected premeditated Islamophobic attack. Officers were called to Oxgate Lane, near Edgware Road, at around 12.35am on Wednesday. Occupants of the car, inside a private car park at the Islamic centre, were told to leave by security at around 12.20am for anti-social behaviour, drinking and apparently using drugs, the force said. Some of the crowd reportedly inflicted minor da...

    Irene Collins, 73, was attacked by the canine as it searched her house in Middlesbrough for a suspected drug dealer in July 2014. The dog, called Dano, then returned to bite Mrs Collins for a second time after it had been dragged off her by its handler, as the pensioner screamed why has this happened to me?. A jury at the inquest at Teesside Magistrates' Court heard Mrs Collins, who had lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, died four days after being bitten on the arms and legs by the dog. On arriving at her home, her son Eric told a police officer that the incident would finish her off. A Home Office pathologist initially reported that she had died of her injuries, despite her other medical issues. Sergeant Neil Yates explained the situation to ...

    A proposed change to the party rulebook circulated to senior figures includes a key new curb on any acting leader, forcing them to subject all of their actions to the prior approval of the ruling National Executive Committee (NEC). When a Labour leader steps aside, the deputy leader automatically becomes ‘acting leader’ in their place while a new election is arranged. However, the leadership election can take many months and supporters of Corbyn are determined that the party should stick with his political direction should he have to step aside for any reason. The proposed rule change drafted by senior allies of the leader would add a brand new clause to the Labour constitution, effectively putting the NEC in charge of the party rather than Watson. It aims to set ...

    British vessels under 15 metres will continue to be able to take scallops from the waters but larger boats will stop fishing in the Baie de Seine from midnight on Monday until the end of 30 October, DEFRA confirmed. The more than a decade-long disagreement came to a head in the early hours of 28 August as French fishermen allegedly threw smoke bombs, rocks and other projectiles at English and Scottish boats in the scallop-rich bay off the Normandy coast. French fishermen accused the British of depleting stocks and wanted them to face the same rules which mean all French boats are banned from fishing for the molluscs during the summer to conserve stocks. Nearly three weeks later, the neighbouring countries have come to an agreement, despite UK industry leaders walki...

    The Prime Minister swiped at the ambitious former foreign secretary as she insisted that her Chequers blueprint is the only alternative to crashing out of the block without a deal. The defiant message came amid claims that the EU is preparing to make concessions on the crucial Irish border issue accepting that technology can be used to avoid friction that could be undermining the Good Friday Agreement. Mrs May is heading into conference season battling for a deal with Brussels while openly criticising her former foreign secretary for the first time as MPs vie to replace her. Tonight on BBC Panorama the Prime Minister will say that it will be her Chequers deal or no deal and insisted she was focused on the country's future rather than her own. She also promised t...